Representation by Jemma Holland
- Date submitted
- 16 February 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Scale of the development is unnecessarily large with a significant impact on the community, landscape and ecology. I ride horses on an already busy road where they propose to drive the construction traffic making it further more riskier every time I go out. It is also near schools and busy junctions turning what should be a village location into a major traffic route. I understand the panels are being sourced from China where there is slave labour. There is another proposal for a solar plant directly outside our house in Exton which is also unwanted. We need to stand together as rural communities against turning the places we call home into industrial sites. If we had wanted to live next to an energy plant we would have done! There clearly isn’t the infrastructure in the national grid to manage large scale solar coming from roof tops etc. and the government has made commitments on renewable energy targets that without significant investment in the grid they now can’t reach. Solar farms are a relatively simple solution and impact far fewer of the population compared to those that could potentially gain. Why should rural communities continue to suffer just because they are in the minority?